Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Tue Sep 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

Lost City Books | Washington

Lost City Books
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Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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Melissa Lozada-Oliva chats with Rax King about her new short story collection, Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive
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About the book:

From the author of Dreaming of You and Candelaria comes an ethereal and revelatory short story collection about faith, delusion, and the demons that can’t get enough of us.A beheaded body interrupts a quinceañera. An obsession with her father’s bizarre video game shifts a lonely girl’s reality. A sentient tail sprouts from a hospital worker’s backside, throwing her romantic life into peril. And in the novella “Community Hole,” a recently cancelled musician flees New York and finds herself in a haunted punk house in Boston.This collection, at once playful, grisly, and tender, presents a tapestry of women ailing for something to believe in – even if it hurts them. Using body horror, fabulism, and humor, Melissa Lozada-Oliva mines the pain and uncanniness of the modern world. Reveling in the fine line between disgust and desire, Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! is for the sinner in us all.


About the author:

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a poet, novelist and screenwriter. A child of Guatemalan and Colombian immigrants, she is the author of peluda, Dreaming of You and Candelaria. Melissa's work has appeared in Vulture, Harper's Bazaar, BBC Mundo, Audible, The Yale Review, NPR, and more. She lives and teaches in New York City. She only prays on planes.

Rax King will moderate a conversation with Melissa Lozada-Oliva.

Rax King is the James Beard award-nominated author of the essay collections Tacky and Sloppy and co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. Her writing can be found in Glamour, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and elsewhere. She is a D.C. native who currently lives in Brooklyn with her toothless Pekingese.


Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact [email protected] with questions.

Dato de accesibilidad: Este evento toma lugar en el segundo piso y Lost City Books no tiene ascensor. Favor de contactar [email protected] con cualquiera duda.

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